Chapter Twenty-Four: The Strange Inn (Asking for Recommendations)
"Li Qing, what happened last night?"
Qi Yun squeezed over directly and asked in a low voice.
As soon as Li Qing and the others saw Qi Yun, they immediately breathed a sigh of relief, but when they noticed the bandage on Qi Yun's chest, their faces changed.
"Second master, are you injured?"
"I'm fine, why is there one person missing, what about three dogs?"
Qi Yun glanced at Li Qing and the others.
The five of them came to this town last night, and now only Li Qing and the four of them have come out.
Hearing this, Li Qing and the others' faces became even more ugly.
Li Qing said in a low voice: "Second Master, we are also about to report to you, this inn... The inn seems to be haunted. ”
"Huh?"
Qi Yun's eyes narrowed, and he said, "What do you mean?"
Li Qing glanced back at the inn, his face turned pale, and said in a low voice: "Second master, let's find a safe place, and I'll tell you again." ”
They walked out of here, more than a hundred meters away from the inn, and came to a big tree at the entrance of the town.
Li Qing's face was ugly, and he said: "Sangou disappeared last night, we didn't see him when we got up early this morning, and what's even more strange is that someone seems to be talking in the room of this inn." ”
The other three gangsters also turned pale and hurriedly nodded.
"Yes, second master, I heard it too. ”
"So do we. ”
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"What the hell is going on?"
Qi Yun asked in a low voice.
"Last night we followed your orders and came here to settle down, and we didn't feel anything at the time, but the shopkeeper was very enthusiastic and brought us into the room, because the inn was relatively large, so we asked for a room by ourselves. ”
"But when I slept to a watch, strange things happened, I always heard someone talking by the bed, buzzing, I couldn't hear clearly, I got up several times last night, thinking it was from next door, but after checking it, I found that there were a few of us next door, no one else lived at all, and other settled Jianghu men all lived upstairs, or they were separated from us by several rooms. ”
"We also asked, and they didn't speak at all, they all went to bed early. ”
This sound continued all night, and all night, I did not dare to close my eyes, and the sound never stopped, as if someone was speaking through the fog, and as if someone was scolding me, it sounded hysterical, but it was not very clear. ”
"When we woke up this morning, the three dogs who slept in the westernmost room were gone, and we thought he had gone out for breakfast, but as soon as we went out, we found that our horses were all dead. ”
"Second master, did you see those horses before? It stands to reason that so many horses are all dead, there is definitely movement, but we didn't hear any sound last night. ”
"This morning to question the shopkeeper, the shopkeeper looked aggrieved, stunned that he didn't know anything, we asked other tenants, they didn't hear the sound of anyone talking in the room, and we searched the entire inn and didn't find any trace of the three dogs, so we almost caught the shopkeeper. ”
Li Qing's face turned pale and he spoke.
Qi Yun quickly understood the general situation, frowned, and said, "Let's go, take me to meet the shopkeeper." ”
He walked towards the inn.
Li Qing and the others became bold again and followed behind.
In the inn, there were seven or eight Jianghu guests arguing around the boss and asking for an explanation.
The boss is a short, fat middle-aged man, surrounded by these seven or eight Jianghu guests, with a bitter face, constantly explaining, but no one wants to listen, and finally all the good things are said, willing to compensate for the damage, and waive the room fee for a few days, these Jianghu guests snorted coldly.
"If you want me to see that you, the shopkeeper, are doing it in secret, do you want to keep us for a few more days before you deliberately killed our horse, what a profiteer!"
A charlatan said indifferently.
The shopkeeper smiled bitterly, and finally sent these people upstairs.
After Qi Yun came in, he looked back and forth on the shopkeeper with a cold gaze, and then looked at the other clerks.
In addition to the shopkeeper, there are also two shopkeepers, who are single and thin, walking lightly, as if they can be blown down by the wind at any time, giving people a strange feeling.
After the shopkeeper noticed Qi Yun's gaze, he hurriedly greeted him.
"Uncles, I really don't know how your horses died? I don't know where your people went, the small ones are willing to compensate, please let the small ones go if you adults have a lot. ”
"You don't have to pay for it, let's stay one more night tonight, just put me next door to them. ”
Qi Yun said coldly.
"Yes, this uncle should come with me. ”
The shopkeeper nodded and walked towards the second floor with Qi Yun.
Qi Yun directly chose Sangou's room, waved his hand, and asked the shopkeeper to retreat.
Li Qing and the others all followed.
The room was small, quite basic, with a bed, a table, and a mirror, and nothing else.
Qi Yun observed here for a while, and only saw Sangou's clothes and a steel knife, which seemed to have been taken off last night and ready to sleep.
He grabbed Sangou's steel knife and pulled it out directly, the knife was sharp, flashing with cold light, without any bloodstains, it shouldn't have been used last night.
"Second master, do you want to arrest the shopkeeper directly and torture him. ”
Li Qing was ruthless.
"Don't worry, let's see the situation tonight, a few of you live in a room, and you don't have anything to do. ”
Qi Yun said.
"Yes, Second Master. ”
Li Qing and the others nodded.
The day passed quickly.
In addition to the Jianghu guests during the day, there were several strange Jianghu people living in the inn.
Hearing that the inn had an accident last night, these Jianghu guests were not only not afraid, but very interested.
Qi Yun stood in the corridor in front of the door, and saw those few Jianghu guests, a total of three people, coming in front and back.
The first person to come in, with an ugly face, in his fifties, was hunched over, laughing, and had big yellow teeth.
The second man came in after more than an hour, limped on a bamboo pole, walked up, limped, and circled around the inn after entering.
The third one is quite normal, dressed in a white robe, with a handsome face, in his early twenties, holding a folding fan in his hand, and there is an indescribable temperament in the whole body, even Qi Yun has a feeling of being ashamed of himself when he sees it.
When the three of them passed by their door, they couldn't help but pause, showed a different color, and glanced at him more.
I don't know if it's an illusion, Qi Yun felt that the eyes of these three people were the same as the young man with a melon head, with a hint of indescribable weirdness, as if they were looking at some kind of food.
Qi Yun frowned, and when they looked at him, he also looked at them.
The three people who came in one after the other didn't look like they had practiced martial arts at all, but they had a faint sense of danger.
Especially the ugly old man with a hunchback, when he passed by, he sneered a few times, and he didn't know what he was laughing at.
Night falls.
In the room, a red candle was stuck on the table, burning silently.
Qi Yunpan sat on the bed, silently waiting for the voice to sound in the room.
But it's been three watches, and there's nothing abnormal.
He waited for a while, got up and walked towards the room of Li Qing and the others.
The corridor was pitch black, with no light, like an eerie corridor, filled with a faint musty smell, completely different from the daytime.
"Huh?"
Qi Yun sensed that something was wrong, and walked quickly to Li Qing's room.
"Li Qing!"
Qi Yun began to knock on the door.
There was silence in the room, not the slightest sound.
Qi Yun frowned and stomped open the door.
Bang!
The whole door collapsed and slammed into the ground, kicking up a cloud of dust, and the room was gloomy, the light was blurred, and there was a faint smell of mold, as if no one had lived in it for several years.
The tables, chairs and benches were overturned, covered with broken cobwebs, and the traces of Li Qing and the others had long since disappeared.